New Information about Ted Rice, Part 1/5: Connecting the Dots

Source:  Masquerade of Angels, by Karla Turner, Ph.D., 1994

Update 5/15/2023:  Ted Rice and his Irish friend Stuart Thomas have a podcast called Alien Talk. You can access it here. https://www.buzzsprout.com/1977704

Dr. Turner’s famous book, Masquerade of Angels, the story of Ted’s lifelong encounters with alien intruders, is out of print and is rarely available, but you can buy an autographed copy from Ted himself for $75. You can email him at teddywayne789@yahoo.com or write him at 2513 Crossford Dr., Foley AL, 36535-1151.

Scripture quotes are from www.biblegateway.com NKJV

In 2010, I read the late Karla Turner’s book Masquerade of Angels, the story of Ted Rice, a gifted psychic and alien abductee. Prompted by a recent interview with a family friend of Ted’s, I recently reread it, and it was as riveting the second time as the first. I blogged about it in 2010, but I have deleted those posts so I could rework them in light of new information.

When someone who is the subject of a compelling and strange book disappears completely, and the author has passed, it’s tempting to wonder if the person was real or if their name in the book is a fictional replacement. I wondered, and so did many others, asking in UFO forums, “Where is Ted Rice?” Well, I don’t know where he is, but thanks to his goddaughter, Bonnie (last name withheld), I can tell you that he is real, that Ted Rice is his real name, that he is still alive, that he was always a good and kind person, and that he is not contesting anything in the book. He told Bonnie why he fell off the grid, and I’ll tell you about it in Part 5. 

But first, I want to deal with what we have already learned from Masquerade, because it is one of the most clarifying books connecting the dots between psychic gifts, New Age religion, so-called space aliens, and demons. The many and varied levels of deception revealed in Masquerade are astonishing. No spy agency anywhere in the world can match the long game played with Ted Rice. The grooming, manipulation, and exploitation were almost irresistible. Dr. Turner wrote that Ted’s life was “designed” (viii). That makes this book a must read for anyone interested in any of the topics listed above.

Because the story is so strange, it’s important to note that Karla and colleague Barbara Bartholic interviewed around 30 of Ted Rice’s friends and associates. Ted’s goddaughter Bonnie (last name withheld), her mother Barbara, and Ted himself contributed information to this article. Some of the stranger aspects of the story were told under hypnotic regression. Of course, I can’t review a whole life in a series of blog posts. My approach here is to pick a few of the more instructive events in Ted’s life that lift the veil on an enduring interdimensional mystery.

Ted was born in 1942 to a typical southern household in Fayette, Alabama. He was baptized at the age of 8 into a Bible belt church where any kind of supernatural strangeness would be unwelcome, so when Teddy began to report odd experiences as a child, it usually got him in trouble. When he was 14, two entities that he thought were angels came into his room. “They looked like immature human forms dressed in flowing robes of blue and green, and their heads were covered by hoods or turbans.” They grabbed him and floated him through the wall and down the street to the school yard. Another pair of the same brought him face to face with a schoolmate named “Jill.” (Ted refused to reveal Jill's real name even though she is now deceased because she requested to not ever be identified.)

 One of the entities touched the chest of each young person and announced, “We have merged your souls” (p. 52). The next time Ted saw Jill, he was totally smitten. Jill didn’t return his advances for a few years until he found a job at Sun Valley Resort in Idaho.

Getting the job at Sun Valley was a virtual impossibility, but that was another experience that was “designed,” which would superficially indicate that whatever was guiding Ted knew exactly what they were doing, could predict the future, and the appeared to have his best interests at heart. Jill surprised Ted by showing up there, and for a while, they were a couple. It seemed as if all Ted’s dreams and wishes and beyond would come to pass under the guiding hand of unseen forces. What could possibly go wrong with a golden goose just because it was invisible and could float through walls…a benefactor that gratuitously hands out all that one could desire on earth?

But alas, Jill quickly became enamored with the star-studded Sun Valley/Ketchum bar life among the young employees, many of whom were away from home for the first time. Night after night, she urged Ted to join her there, but Ted couldn’t share her enthusiasm for the drunkenness that often resulted. It soured their relationship to the point where she found her entertainment elsewhere, including with Ted’s friend and roommate.

“Look,” she said, “we grew up together, schooled together, churched together, so of course I love you, Ted. How could I not love you, you’re my best friend? And I’ve tried to love you the way you wanted. But all of this business with the angels and our souls being merged, Ted, that’s your obsession. Those were your angels, not mine!” (p. 71)

And with that, the tie was severed. It was devastating for Ted. He withdrew from friends and parties for a while, wondering how God’s angels could set them up for such a failure that brought pain to them both. And this is a great question. I’m going to insert my own judgment on this experience here, because the reason I study UFOs, abductions, and paranormal is to compare the phenomena to the Bible, hoping to come to some understanding of how it all fits together.

The way I see the saga with Jill is that it was not to bring them together for a wonderful, abundant adult life, but to cause them to corrupt each other. Her friendship with Ted brought Jill to Sun Valley in Colorado where she dove into a life of drinking and parties. Had Ted succumbed to her pleas for him to join her there night after night, the long-term result could have been two alcoholics who would eventually marry, have children, live a miserable life, and ultimately divorce.

Do you think the God of heaven would miss that Jill would not commit to Ted’s strange revelations and he would not join her nightly bar life? Could it be that the soul tie established when they were teenagers was a trap rather than some weird kind of blessing? Furthermore, I’ve been hearing angel stories since 1965. There is an angel story in my own walk with God. You can read about it here. Angels can look exactly like real humans, but they do not wear turbans and robes, and they don’t make mistakes. Those familiar with literature about alien abductions know that aliens often blunder, sometimes in goofy ways, sometimes causing harm. God does not err. His plans for us are for wholeness and peace.

“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope,” (Jeremiah 29:11 NKJV).

That does not by any means suggest that He will give us all of our wants and desires. He gives us what we need to get through life and come out stronger on the other end. In God’s kingdom, pain is instructive. His desire is to get us ready for heaven. The devil’s plan is to drag us to hell.

Jill wasn’t the only female friend that Ted made in Sun Valley. Another beautiful young woman kept appearing in the Lodge or on the mountain trail that Ted used to hike. She and Ted had wonderful chats about life and a host of other topics. He was never able to tease out a last name or a particular place where she lived. She would wave her hand in a general way and say that she and her people lived up there in the mountains. After some weeks of seeing her and realizing that only he and no one else knew anything about her, he pressed her about her home. From Masquerade:

Taking another tack, Ted persisted, this time with questions about her family. “If you don’t have telephones,” he said, “and you don’t live in a town, and there aren’t any houses up there, you don't receive mail, just where does your family live?” “We live in the mountains,” Maya answered patiently. “In?” Ted echoed, trying to understand. “In the mountains? You mean, actually inside them? Like in a cave?” “Yes,” she said, as if no further explanation were required (p. 97).

That was the last time Ted saw Maya, but she promised him that they would meet again. She was so real that Ted couldn’t believe she was anything other than a gorgeous, sweet woman.

In their discussions she accomplished two things. One was to help Ted realize that he was psychic, something that he had not fully comprehended at that point, and the other was to plant the seed that he needed to go home and get back into college.

So, what could go wrong with a beautiful, mysterious woman opening the universe to him and setting him up for the next manipulated phase of his life? Well, on the apparent surface, nothing, but if you are a student of the abduction phenomenon, you will immediately be aware that beautiful women often turn into ugly genderless reptilians. You can read about such a case in Derril Sim’s book Alien Hunter: Evidence in Light, 2007. I blog about it here:   

In the link above, Sims describes a case where a reptilian alien came to an abductee as a beautiful woman. She pressed him to join Sim’s abduction support group, but when the man wouldn’t cooperate with her plans, she got angrier and more aggressive. Finally, she touched an old knee injury and caused him to scream with intense pain. When the charade didn’t work, the screen dropped and it turned out that “she” was really a reptilian. Another interesting story in that post describes a woman who fended off an alien attack by reciting the Apostle’s Creed and rebuking the aliens in the name of Jesus.

When Ted realized that he wouldn’t see Maya again, he did leave Sun Valley for home in Tuscaloosa, Alabama where he enrolled in college. He hoped to settle down to a normal life full of friends and normal rhythms, but that was not to be. In Part 2, Ted meets “Ralph” and “Miss Flowers.” Bonnie knows who those characters are and the background of the fascinating story that comes next.

This story can also be seen at Editing New Information about Ted Rice, Part 1, Connecting the Dots – Medium